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This undated photo provided by the Arizona Department of Public Safety shows Arizona's state police agency detective Carmen Figueroa.

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Two U.N. special investigators said Tuesday that they're afraid an Algerian man, recently sent home from Guantanamo Bay against his will, is now in danger.

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One name stands out on the guest list of thousands of youth at a conference in Ecuador this week: Elian Gonzalez.

This undated file photo provided by the Illinois Department of Corrections shows inmate Stanley Wrice.

With a quick handshake, President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro whipped up a frenzy Tuesday that led many to wonder whether a shift is coming between the former Cold War nations.

To GraA a Machel and the Mandela family; to President Zuma and members of the government; to heads of state and government, past and present; distinguished guests - it is a singular honor to be with you today, to celebrate a life unlike any other.

At Nelson Mandela's memorial, the crowd applauded dignitaries and even cheered the last apartheid-era president.

Phillip Steel, a resident of Deer Trail, Colorado, is ready to fight for Old West values he feels are being threatened by drones.

Five years after his detention, the U.S. is calling for the release of Chinese Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo and an end to his wife's undeclared house arrest.

A man convicted of brutally killing two elderly women more than a quarter-century ago is set to be executed in Oklahoma.

Kyle and Lorraine Garth, of Mason, Ohio, near Cincinnati, paid tribute to Nelson Mandela at his statue in Johannesburg on Monday, with children Leyna, 3, and Kaeden, 5. Lorraine was born and raised near Durban, South Africa, and came to the United States to work as an au pair, where she met her husband.

A 27-year-old Southern California man who admitted hacking into hundreds of social media and email accounts to get women to pose naked for him has been sentenced to five years in federal prison.

An Australian citizen was sentenced Monday in federal court to 30 years in prison for his role in a bizarre scheme in which he and his partner made their young adopted son available to at least eight other people for sex.

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is ordering the U.S. military to transport troops from Burundi into the Central African Republic to help quell the latest upsurge in violence there.

A former official in the Los Angeles suburb of Bell was convicted of corruption Monday in a case that drove the city to the brink of bankruptcy.

Federal officials on Monday unsealed five criminal cases filed against 18 current and former Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies as part of an FBI investigation into allegations of civil rights abuses and corruption in the nation's largest jail system.

As Air Force One made its way from Washington to Johannesburg Monday, a president, a former president and a possible future president were all traveling aboard.

Bob Filner was sentenced Monday to three months of home confinement and three years of probation for harassing women while he was mayor of San Diego, completing the fall of the former 10-term congressman who barely a year ago achieved his long dream of being elected leader of the nation's eighth-largest city.